Saints in Scottish Place-Names

St Columba's Chapel, Petty

Grid reference

NH 715 494 (accurate position)

Six-figure easting & northing

271500 849400

Latitude

57.516737167648074

Longitude

-4.145539962926937

Altitude (metres)

10

County

Inverness-shire

Nearby places

Petty, parish (1.45 miles)

St Columba Church, Petty (1.45 miles)

St Mary's Chapel, (ant.) Inverness & Bona (2.11 miles)

Kilmuir, settlement, Knockbain (2.44 miles)

Kilmuir Wester, former parish, Knockbain (2.45 miles)

Object Classification

Antiquity

Ecclesiastical

Is linear feature?

No

Notes

The site of this supposed chapel is on a promontory near the shore. The archaeological evidence for a chapel at the site is unconvincing, though there may have been a burial ground (NMRS). Is it possible that the name has been accidentally transferred to this site from St Columba Church, Petty? This latter appears in the seventeenth century as Heglish-Colmekille in Geog. Coll. ii, 557-8: 'Alt Terly (OS Alterlie, NH716493), a myl thence Bony (= Lonnie?, NH737491), a myl thence Heglish-Colmekill'. This would place Heglish-Colmekill about two miles east of Alterlie.

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Relationships with other parishes

Within Petty, parish

Within Petty, parish

Relationships with other places

Related ? St Columba Church, Petty

Names

St Columba's Chapel

St Columba's Chapel 1843, OS 6 inch first edn.

Saints in this place-name

Columb, Colmán, Commán, Mo Cholmóc, Mo Chommóc, Mo Chumma, Columba, Columbanus etc (ns) (certain)

Columb Cille m. Feidlimid (probable)

Colmán of Moray (maybe)